Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
- Google Authorship Rich Snippets Even Easier Now With Google+ Signin
Google is really encouraging people to (1) sign up for Google+ and (2) mark their pages with rich snippets and authorship for the search results. Google came out with a way to encourage publishers and webmasters to do both of these... - Google Glass XE9 Snagged My "How Do I" App With "How To" Video Results
Google released an update to the Glass software codenamed XE9, the update is tremendous and adds a ton of search and other features... - Google Maps Drops Wikipedia Layer
It seems as if Google dropped the Wikipedia layer from Google Maps a few weeks ago. A Google Maps Help thread has dozens of complaints from Google Maps users that the Wikipedia layer is gone. The layer provided additional content from Wikipedia about location specific data on the map... - Google's Matt Cutts: The Nofollow Can Only Hurt You When...
Matt Cutts, Google's head of search spam, posted a video yesterday on the question of, "can nofollow links hurt your site... - Microsoft Updates Bing Video Search
Bing announced updates to their video search engine... - Mr. Jingles Google+ Pillow
A few Googlers posted pictures of Mr. Jingles pillows. Mr. Jingles is the little Google+ notification icon at the top right of the Google pages. I guess they handed out pillows in the shape of Mr. J
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Facebook Launches More Real-Time Trending Conversation Tools, WebmasterWorld
- Best Way To Optimize For Numerous Locals, HighRankings Forums
- Getting rich snippet code for breadcrumb navigation is a…, John Mueller - Google+
